A recent Sand Hill Groupstudyfocuses on an executive-level prescription for implementing a successful Big Data initiative. This article authored by Shirish Netke, Amberoon president and CEO, and M.R. Rangaswami, Sand Hill Group co-founder and CEO, uses an executive conversation to demonstrate “Mindset over Data Set.”

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The increase in the number and impact of disruptive events requires a proactive approach that includes developing business agility to better handle rapid changes, says Suresh Chandrasekaran, senior VP, Denodo Technologies. He discusses how data virtualization and cloud apps create an agile environment.

Sand Hill Group surveyed 160 real-world practitioners and conducted in-depth interviews with executives responsible for Big Data initiatives at 25 large enterprises. You can shorten your organization’s learning curve by following the report’s recommendations comprising a detailed prescription for success in implementing and leveraging Big Data solutions.

You’ll learn how to assess the strategic potential of your organization’s Big Data, build organizational capabilities, align stakeholders, implement competencies, contain costs without compromising results and much more. The report is packed with charts on research findings, comments from CEOs and CIOs, use cases and steps for taking action.

The potential for business transformation from Big Data is enormous — until now only the privileged few have had the resources, vision and capabilities to truly deliver on the promise of Big Data for their organizations. That's about to change.

Kick off 2014 with a bias for action — and the benefit of proven technologies and techniques to take your place at the table with Big Data winners.

In addition, the first 25 registrants who also attend the webinar will receive a complimentary copy of the new Sand Hill report "Mindset Over Data Set: A Big Data Prescription for Setting the Market Pace" (valued at $1,995).

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